Rigoletto

Year: 2013

World premiere: Teatro la Fenice, Venice, 1851. Met premiere: November 16, 1883. A dramatic journey of undeniable force, Rigoletto was immensely popular from its premiere and remains fresh and powerful to this day. The story, based on a controversial play by Victor Hugo, tells of an outsider—a hunchbacked jester—who struggles to balance the dueling elements of beauty and evil that exist in his life. Written during the most fertile period of Verdi’s artistic life, the opera resonates with a universality that is frequently called Shakespearean.

Michael Mayer’s hit production of Rigoletto places the action in a neon-bedecked Las Vegas in 1960.

Director: Michael Mayer

Choreographer: Steven Hoggett

Composed by: Giuseppe Verdi

Lyrics by: Francesco Maria Piave

Set Designer: Christine Jones

Costume Designer: Susan Hilferty

Lighting Designer: Kevin Adams

Photography by: Ken Howard

Associate/Assistant: Marina Reti

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